Squamish News

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is urging Sea to Sky residents to take precautions due to poor air quality resulting from local wildfires. Air quality in Whistler and Pemberton slightly improved overnight but the air quality in Squamish is now worse.

IN 1998, the original resort plan was supported by 90 per cent of the community of Squamish and by 85 per cent of the community of Whistler as presented in a Marketed Independent Research Study conducted in April 2002 in which the original 8,000 acre project site was enlarged to 12,000 acres.

I wasn't too worried about the actual shaving of my hair, as it was something I had planned to do 17 years ago when I was going to be ordained as a Buddhist nun in Thailand.

WE LIVE in an endemic region for Lyme disease according to Health Canada. The International Lyme and Associated Disease Society says that Endemic areas have closer to 50 per cent of ticks carrying the disease. This differs substantially from the 1 per cent that the suggested by the Center for Disease Control.

A LITTLE while back, as we were getting ready to offer a series of music-healing concert abroad, my fiancé & I were gifted T-shirts with the inscription ‘Silence is luxurious’.

Want this new family in Squamish to get excited? Just talk to them about mountain biking.

Garibaldi at Squamish: three little words that have been the dream of some, and the nightmare of others, for more than 30 years. The Brohm ridge proposal for 23 ski lifts, 124 ski trails, several village centres, and 20 000 units of hotel and housing pits billionaire development companies Northland Properties and Aguilini Investment Group against concerned citizens and existing stakeholders.

When asked my advice, I recant, “Choice, Chance, Change.” Make a choice to take a chance, or your life will never change. With that advice, I hand them my recruiter’s business card, share employment opportunities and offer to help spiff up their résumés.

More tech jobs are opening up in Squamish and as companies either relocate their operations to Howe Sound, existing small

District has cancelled Canada Day fireworks on July 1 due to the high fire risk. The issuance of current backyard campfire permits is suspended until further notice.